5
According to github bitcoin/bips, BIP-173 is still a draft. And i saw today that Electrum wallet start using it.
Is this means that the specs for BIP-173 won't change in the future ? or the final version won't introduce breaking changes to the draft version ?
I just learned about Bech32 addresses this week and this gets me a little confused
3
Yes, they are. Bech32 addresses allow for native Segwit outputs, which offer higher efficiency and security than the legacy P2SH nested Segwit outputs. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki#Reference_implementations has reference implementations in C, C++, JS, Go, Python, Haskell, Ruby, and Rust along with tests courteous of Pieter Wuille
Thanks a lot @satoshi_ghost ! i have been waiting this answer for a long time :D – youssef – 2018-01-03T16:43:08.197
1
Pieter Wuille just moved the BIP from draft to proposed (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/627).
– satoshi_ghost – 2018-01-03T17:38:29.060